Two police officers were shot in Fort Worth, Texas, while responding to a suicide call, police department officials say.

The shooting happened at a home on Wharton Drive just after 8:30 p.m. Officers found an elderly male deceased with a gunshot wound to the head. Another person in the home directed officers to a possible witness to the shooting, who was in a shed behind the house.

When the two responding officers attempted to confront the witness in the shed, the witness allegedly opened fire.